Resources

March 15, 2018

Evaluating outcomes: How to use ‘Capturing Magic’

A Practical Guide to using NYCI’s ‘Capturing Magic’ – a tool for evaluating outcomes in youth arts projects in line with the National Quality Standards Framework […]
February 13, 2018

Capturing Magic: A Tool for Evaluating Outcomes in Youth Arts Projects

This resource will help you measure the outcomes of your youth arts project. This set of scales is specially designed to provide a series of observable behaviours in a group of young people taking part in an arts project.

August 8, 2016

You got a grant from the Arts Office? How do I get one of those? – Writing the application.

In the last blog we looked at choosing the right project to apply for, now onto the application form. Here are just some general tips for […]
July 27, 2016

You got a grant from the Arts Office? How do I get one of those? – Choosing the right project.

Every local authority has an Arts Office and they all run a yearly grant scheme. The details of all of these schemes vary from Arts Office […]
June 28, 2016

Where do I start with getting a Youth Exchange going?

So, maybe you’ve heard about Erasmus+ and think international activities would be a good thing for you and your youth group to get involved in. Or […]
June 15, 2016

Getting International Arts in Action with Erasmus+!

This year we in Léargas celebrate 30 years of managing international programmes on behalf of the European Commission and the Irish Government, including the Erasmus+ Youth […]
September 3, 2015

A Skills Perspective on Arts Education

We know that access to the Arts is important for Young People, but why? In this next series of blogs we have asked individuals from a […]
August 18, 2015

Creativity, Resilience and Global Citizenship

In January of this year my colleague Nora Furlong and I hosted a programme in CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in collaboration with Youth […]
July 30, 2015

Taking Time to Reflect

In this blog, Jessica Carson shares some of the questions she uses to reflect on her work, what motivates and inspires her, and how to decide […]